**Yesterday, with the retained list still very much on my mind, I penned a piece on shipping those out who want to leave as quickly as possible.**
The article – [stay-or-go-now-no-dilly-dallying](https://vitalfootball.co.uk/luton-stay-or-go-now-no-dilly-dallying) – also asked for your nominations as to who might be wanting to leave, a question that prompted numerous suggestions from our readership with, surprisingly, Elijah Adebayo being named.
Now I say surprising because another recent article – [striker-sidelined-for-six-months](https://vitalfootball.co.uk/luton-striker-sidelined-for-six-months) – covered the fact that Adebayo will be out injured until circa November 2025 and therefore, I’d think, not be on the wish list of any Premier League or EFL Championship club this summer.
But, flicking through the comments posted, on what was a fruitful day for interaction, one did bring a smile to my face and a subsequent fit of the giggles.
It came from **Mark** and contained what I believe to be a fictitious conversation relating to, I assume some time ago, apparent interest in Elijah from Everton, with it reading as thus:
_Ring-ring, ring-ring …_
_“Hello, Everton Football Club …”_
_“Hi, it’s Gary from Luton Town.”_
_“Oh, hiya’”_
_“Yeah, just getting back to you on that Adebayo deal we had lined up.”_
_“Erm, I’m not sure …”_
_“Yeah, it was all just about sorted. The agreed price was £15 million.”_
_“I’m not 100% that we’d got this one agreed …”_
_“I spoke to somebody called Dave, I think he mentioned that the paperwork was lost with the new ground move – you know, removal men, what ARE they like .”_
_“I’m going to have to verify this on our end.”_
_“Nah, don’t do that … I mean, we’re happy to knock 10% off if we can just get it sorted now … hello? Hello?”_
Now I’ve always imagined how transfer deals are done, I’m guessing they have moved on from the days when the club secretary waited for a fax to arrive or clandestine meetings were held at a motorway service station.
I’m more inclined to believe, these days, that laptops are involved with Zoom meetings, or something similar, the order of the day.
But, it seems, Mark’s post, later in the day, prompted another response from one of the readership, with a gentleman going by the name of **Mr Walsh**, offering the following reply:
_“Well Mark Everton were meant to be in for Adebayo but they couldn’t get the ownership of the club sorted till after dead line day.”_
_“Laugh and snigger all you want but how much over the years has been spent on the Brighton striker Danny Welbeck who last weekend only made it to double figures of goals scored for the season even though he had played for Manchester United and Arsenal.”_
_“Adebayo scored 10 from open play and wasn’t being played as an out and out striker but provider for Morris and also scored a hat trick.”_
_“How quickly we forget.”_
I’m not sure what to make of that, I’m sure Mark wasn’t having a direct pop at Elijah, or was he?
But Everton, for one reason or another, became a BUZZ word in our plethora of comments yesterday, with another of our readership, sending me a private e-mail relating to Everton’s decision not to demolish Goodison Park when they move to their new ground next season, but, instead, handing the facility over to the Everton Ladies team.
The subject of the conversation being whether, once Power Court is ready for action, the Luton Town board might consider doing something similar with Kenilworth Road, handing the quaint old ground over to our own Ladies side.
Can anyone see that happening or is the demolition of Kenilworth Road and the valuable piece of land it sits on, already accounted for in the financial workings of the project?
Maybe a toffee, or two, to chew on in the above subject matter.
All thoughts are welcome in our comment facility beneath this article.
COYH